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Zinni brought nothing new in his toolkit. Instead, his mission was a kind of third-time-lucky attempt to activate the cease-fire plan formulated last June by CIA director George Tenet, and sullenly adopted, but never implemented, by both sides. The Tenet plan, though, was simply a rough choreography...
Unlike Mitchell's first book, a loosely connected collection of stories, Number9Dream is a more fully fleshed-out tale, and reaffirms what many had already suspected: the arrival of a vastly talented and imaginative novelist.
Neither side makes any secret of the fact that they'd rather not be dealing with the leaders on the other side - and that's a grim portent for the prospects of the Mitchell proposals, whose starting premise is that "each party again be willing to regard the other as...
There's nothing new in this standoff over truce terms. The Mitchell Report, on which the current U.S. cease-fire efforts are partly based, noted: "Israeli leaders do not wish to be perceived as 'rewarding violence.' Palestinian leaders do not wish to be perceived as 'rewarding occupation.' Nevertheless, if the...
...such consensus is even more elusive now than it was a year ago when the Mitchelll Report landed on President Bush's desk. Sharon is averse to restarting political talks, both because of the current violence and because he has traditionally opposed the Oslo Accord that would serve, according to Mitchell, as the basis for further negotiations...